Improvement in safety attachments for pockets



UNITED STATES WILEY HENRY CAIRNS, OF PETROLIA CITY, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN SAFETY ATTACHMENTS FOR POCKETS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 146,570, dated January20, 1874,- application filed December 6, 1873.

7 To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILEY H. CAIRNS, of Petrolia City, in the county ofButler and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in Pocket-Book Guard, of which the following is aspecification:

The figure is a plan view of my improved pocket-book guard, shown asapplied to a pocket-book.

My invention has for its object to furnish an improved guard forattachment to pocketbooks to prevent the possibility of their beingdrawn from the pocket without the owners knowledge, and which shall besimple in construction, convenient in use, and etfective in operation.The invention consists in the combination of the two pairs of pivotedarms, the sliding bar, the spring, and the spring-catch with each other,to adapt them to be applied to a pocket-book, and in the combination ofthe rubber tips with the projecting ends of'the pair of pivoted arms ofthe guard, as hereinafter fully described.

A represents the side of a pocket-book. 'B are two short straps, arms,or bars, which are pivoted to each other at one end, and also to theside A of the pocket-book, or to a small plate, G, which is secured tosaid side A. The other ends of the arms B are pivoted to two arms, D, ata little distance from their outer ends, which said outer ends projectat the side edges of the pocket-book, and have rubber blocks E attachedto them to prevent them from cutting or tearin g the pocket. The otheror inner ends of the arms D are pivoted to each other and to the end ofa short sliding bar, F, which passes through a keeper, G, attached tothe side A of the pocketbook, and has a thumb-piece or knob, H, formedupon or attached to its other or free end. By this con-* struction, bydrawing the sliding bar F upward the projecting ends of the bars D willbe drawn inward, allowing the pocket-book to be readily removed from orinserted in the pocket. I is a spring, which may be made of rubber ormetal, and one end of which is attached to the attached to the arms D atthe point where they are pivoted to each other and to the sliding bar F.By this construction, when the sliding bar F is released the spring I,by its construction, draws the pivoting-points of the two pairs of armsD 1) toward each other, which causes the rubber-tipped ends of the armsD to project and rest against the pocket,

and thus prevent the pocket-book from being Withdrawn from said pocketwithout the owners knowledge, To the sliding bar Fis attached a spring,J, which is made with a shoulder, and passes beneath the keeper G, sothat when the sliding bar F is drawn outward to .draw the projectingends of the arms D inward the said shoulder will catch upon the keeperG, and hold the said, arms in place until the said spring-catch J ispressed inward and released from the keeper G, thus allowing thepocket-book to be readily removed from or inserted in the pocket. Incase the side A of the pocket-book be flexible, a metallic plate may beplaced upon its inner side, as shown in dotted lines in the figure, andsecured by the rivets that secure the guardto said side A, to prevent itfrom being drawn up into wrinkles or folds by the tension of the springI.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent- 1. The combination of the arms B D, slidingbar F, keeper G, spring I, and the springcatch J, with each other, toadapt them to be applied to a pocket-book, substantially as herein shownand described.

-2. The combination of the rubber tips E with the projecting ends of thearms D of the guard B D F G I J, substantially as herein shown anddescribed:

WILEY HENRY CAIRNS.

Witnesses 'l. S. ZEEVER, M. S.,RAY.

